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Anarchism and Religion
The popular stereotype of anarchists' relationship to religion is
that we are all priest-killers and church-burners. This is, as is
usually the case with mainstream representations of anarchism, almost
completely false.
Religion &
belief
We believe that people should be empowered to be in control of their
own destinies. That means opposing the power of the churches.
Anarchism &
Religion
WSM position paper
Church power in the south...
[1991]
The Catholic church in Ireland has always been massively supported by
the State and allowed a huge say in the running of the country. This
article will attempt to cover the facts of church power in Ireland
and the long history of State support beginning hundreds of years be
fore the establishment of the 26 county state\
Catholic church seeks state aid
for child abuse! [1993]
THE CATHOLIC Church is looking for payment in return for sexually
abusing children! Right up to the 1960s young children from Catholic
orphanages in Britain and the six counties were shipped out to
Australia. There the boys, some as young as eight years, were used as
almost slave labour by Catholic farmers and the Church itself
Child molesters & Churchmen
[1995]
When the case of Father Brendan Smyth, the paedophile priest, came
out, the whole country was revolted. Here was an unrepentant child
molester, carrying out sexual assaults on hundreds of children over a
period of forty years, with the full knowledge of the Catholic
Church.
Divorce Victory: Clerical Power
Weakened [1996]
In the past few years, issues concerning the family and the place of
women have been at the centre of Irish politics - in part because
Catholic church thinking has long dominated these areas of life in
Ireland. Things first began to change for the better in the early
1970s when women began to fight back against Church rule.
Employment Equality Bill
[1997]
The Employment Equality Bill effectively gives schools and hospitals
which are controlled by either of the churches the right to
discriminate on the basis of marital status, family/parental status,
sexual orientation, race, religion or membership of the Traveller
Community
Church sells off The Secret
Garden [1997]
There has been a Community Training Workshop in the grounds of All
Hallows College for the past fifteen years. The workshop takes most
of its trainees from the prisons and the probation service. Their
landlord (the Catholic Church) has sold the land the workshop is on
to a private housing developer
Irish taxpayers to subsidise
clerical rapists [2002]
PRIESTS, nuns and Christian Brothers beat, molested and raped
thousands of young children who were sent into their "care".
Education Minister Michael Woods signed a deal whereby the state will
pick up the bill for all compensation.
Dunboyne Sacking - Union Failed
To Act [2002]
This dismissal raises many questions for teachers about the role
of religion in Irish primary education. Even further it raises
serious issues for INTO members about the failure of the union to
defend its members from bullying and intimidation by the
unaccountable 'owners' of the schools in which we work
Clerical rapists and the
Irish state
Given all that we now know about the organised cover-up of what
happened in Catholic institutions, churches and hospitals it is fair
to say that if any other organised group were guilty of the same
offences there would be charges brought of "conspiracy to pervert
the course of justice".
Why are they still running our
schools? [2005]
It's taken decades for the mask of evil to finally be fully exposed.
The report by the inquiry into child sexual abuse by pervert priests
in the Ferns diocese has at last exposed the suffering endured by
huge numbers for people.
Hijab: lifting the veil
Standing up to religious oppression or state racism? Ultimately we
believe that people should have the freedom to dress whatever way
they like. This means freedom from state interference and freedom
from religious interference in how one should dress.
The trouble with Islam
The September 11 attacks, the Afghan war that followed from it and
the ongoing war in Israel/Palestine have once again raised the issue
of Islam in the minds of many anarchists in Ireland and Britain. Not
just because of the role Islam has in shaping those conflicts but
also because militant Islam has become a far more noticeable presence
on solidarity demonstrations.
The final victory will be the
people's
An interview with Farzad, an Iranian Dissident in Exile in Ireland.
2 Years In Jail For Criticising
Islam
Text of a letter recieved by the WSM from the Workers Communist Party
Of Iraq.
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